I am not yet ready to inaugurate a “Street Art” category in FNY, my first new category in a couple of years. Most of the best art you will find…
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In late August 2024 I wandered around Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years; I have become reluctant to walk in areas without an opportunity to sit,…
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I never knew there was a Saint Julian until I researched this one-block street in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, wedged between two main routes, Bay and Van Duzer Streets, seen here…
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On the eastern edge of Queens, Alley Pond Park takes up 635 acres from the head of Little Neck Bay on the north to Union Turnpike on its south. A…
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WHILE C.B.J Snyder may be recognized as New York City’s premier schools architect, Cypress Hills, at the far east end of Brooklyn, has a pair of school buildings designed by…
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EVERY time I take the Long Island RR from my home in Little Neck into the City, I enjoy the views I have of Sunnyside Yards, which the tracks travel…
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KEEP looking up! At building rooflines, that is. But be careful that the coast is clear, many New Yorkers have no tolerance for skyward gawkers, especially if they’re race walking…
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THE plan was simple on this July afternoon. For an invigorating but not too taxing outing I would walk Norman Avenue as far east as comfortable, then head back west…
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I enjoy a stroll around Fort Totten, located in eastern Queens at the north end of Bell Boulevard where the Cross Island Parkway turns west. From 2017-2021 I often bicycled…
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To my eternal regret I completely missed what was a lamppost graveyard in Tribeca, now one of NYC’s most expensive neighborhoods, for many years in the 1970s and into the…
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THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…
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IT’S been three years since I walked 79th Street, Upper East and West Side, through Central Park, for a FNY Crosstown entry that hasn’t happened yet. FNY has a backlog…